Quotes About Music

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

It's only rock and roll, my god! It's not rocket science.

I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.

Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.

Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all.

Music is a science which should have definite rules; these rules should be drawn from an evident principle; and this principle cannot really be known to us without the aid of mathematics.

In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous.

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.

An atom must be at least as complex as a grand piano.

The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the music of an organ deprived of wind.

They look at what's more important, like subjects to help with the SAT's, etc. They miss that music is vital. It offers a break from a stressful day of science and math and it's different.

Science teachers and the mentally ill, that's all Jazz is for.

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.

From Harmony, from heav'nly Harmony. This universal Frame began.

Let your life be a song. Let music be the background of whatever human things you will do for this blazing, spinning planet, and never let go of the good, never let go of the kindness.

And so Discovery drove on toward Saturn, as often as not pulsating with the cool music of the harpsichord, the frozen thoughts of a brain that had been dust for twice a hundred years.

I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.

There're songs to make you smile, there're songs to make you sad. But with a happy song to sing it never seems as bad.

There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.

There have always been jokes all over our songs; I originally started writing lyrics to make my friends crack a smile, which is difficult.

If I was on an island, just for melody, I would take albums by the Stones, AC/DC and the Beach Boys' Smiley Smile.

When a smile touches our hearts. When the forest stills us to peace. When music moves us to rapture. When we really love, laugh or dance with joy. We are at one with the Angels.

I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.

A long long time ago, I can still remember how that music use to make me smile.